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 Name her accomplishments as VP. Go. 
 Good for you! That must feel nice. 
 September 13th. Prepare thyselves. 
 It's a strange Kamala Harris campaign ad, but you know it's her from the laugh 
 Would be a massive failure if Trump didn't simply retrofit his Biden debate line when Harris drops a nonsensical platitude: "I really don’t know what she said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think she knows what she said either." 
 Gonna be amazing to watch the media push 1,034,234th Look At Kamala!™, in which we find out that instead of being a grasping, corrupt, and wildly incompetent politician, she's actually incredibly kind, principled, and competent. 
 Trump’s speech began in a unique and fascinating way, and then rolled off the rails – but overall, his RNC was a massive success. Meanwhile, will Joe Biden be GONE by Monday?!

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 What if everyone thinks the media is using many different sources inside the White House but actually all the sources are Biden and Biden I wants to stay but Biden II wants to go, and neither knows the other exists 
 Some people think we’re in decline, in the final stages of the American empire. Wrong. We’re at the height. We’re so rich and powerful that we can run two 80 year olds against each other, one of them totally senile. We can make the one who golfs better the presidential frontrunner. Then we can have him introduced by Hulk Hogan. And he’ll speak for 93 minutes, and you’ll LIKE IT. Because AMERICA. And if you don’t like it, then you can kiss our ass. 
 Still better than "Imagine" 
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 Yes, clearly after an assassination attempt against Trump, the problem of heated rhetoric is all about Trump's rhetoric. You pathetic, sad-sack assclowns. 
 Can't wait until we hear that John Wilkes Booth shot him out of homophobia 
 This master of the foreign policy field has completely set the world on fire. Otherwise, spot on. 
 This will probably work. Rapists hate squares. 
 You do not believe he will serve another four years. None of you do. And you don't care about that. 
 This is a smart move by her. He loses, she gets to claim they lost because they were too moderate. Then her wing is ascendant. 
 Orange Hitler™ V91.0 released! 
 Even in this still photo your stiff gait is evident. Honestly, President Biden, your people are screwing you. 
 If he's got a time machine, maybe he can go back to 1856 and defeat James Buchanan or something useful 
 Frederick Douglass.
Calvin Coolidge.
MLK.
Joe Biden. 
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 "Empathy" is not the word that comes to mind for a woman who shoves her dementia-addled husband onstage to be humiliated before billions of people, then claps for him like the mom of a two-year-old who just used the potty 
 This tweet is like the Platonic ideal of modern Never Trumpism. 
 Man, these polls would sure bother Joe Biden if he were alive 
 Recognize the utterly dishonest and unhinged response to the immunity case for what it is: the latest iteration of the Democrats' 2024 political strategy arguing that a man with dementia must be president in order to stop Orange Hitler. That's all this is. 
 So the Save Our Democracy™ Crew, in response to a Supreme Court decision finding that presidents may have presumptive immunity in unclear cases, has recommended destroying the Supreme Court and droning Donald Trump. Probably they just love democracy, as they say. 
 So just to be clear, Biden didn't fire anyone over Afghanistan, but he's getting ready to fire people because he has dementia and made the decision to do a debate anyway 
 Good thing Biden selected as his vice president one of the most competent, trusted, and charming people in America. Oh, wait. 
 He should just make sure to have that discussion between 10 am and 4 pm 
 "Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear
And chastise with the valor of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal." 
 Watch as every Democrat who called for Biden to drop out flips and starts talking about how last night's public dementia meltdown was an aberration 
 In the aftermath of that debate, Democrats are days away from considering federal legalization of euthanasia. 
 If you believe this dude has a six handicap, you probably also believe he is a good president and mentally competent 
 The chances of Iran desperately seeking a nuke, China blockading Taiwan, and Russia going for broke in Ukraine just rose dramatically. Our enemies think Trump will be elected (they're right) and they believe they'd better move while they've got President Senility in office. 
 This is an excellent ad 
 Jamaal Bowman and AOC are the emissaries of the Democratic Party future: elected dullards somehow considered visionaries because they spout intersectional Jew-hating bullshit and are racially diverse. If that's what Democrats think a winning coalition looks like, good luck to them. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1805363424706084864/vid/avc1/1280x720/EG3ZONQ-mvnCiebD.mp4?tag=14 
 Finally, Bruno gets a job at the White House 
 My old shul. Used to walk here with the kids. 

BTW, if people protested Hamas by going to a random mosque and shouting at the constituents, it would be national news and Joe Biden would make a statement about the evils of Islamophobia. 
 His performance in "Ordinary People" is an all-timer. One of those actors who always makes the thing he's in significantly better than it has to be. 
 Our politicians are deeply unserious people who feel zero obligation to solve the pressing problems they have been elected to solve. 
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 It will never cease to be hilarious how the Left continues to cherish the woman who found a way to lose to Donald Trump 
 This is the great danger for Trump in the debates: the bar for Biden is "did he die?" 
 In other words, Hamas is counting on you, legacy media! Don't let them down! https://t.co/JVz7NldHL2 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPxgNHkW0AA9p_-.png 
 Don't go toward the light, Joe! 
 Well, to be fair, they did commit the crime of blasphemy against the Church of Pride 
 You missed the most important one: only 19 percent of Democrats think prioritizing marriage and children makes society better off. Which is totally insane. https://t.co/Tkv1Mzu8oW https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPe2Y5PWIAArgLW.png 
 Man, it certainly would be terrible if a president unleashed his DOJ to prosecute his chief opponent in two separate jurisdictions while party hacks convicted that opponent of non-crimes in, say, New York 
 Apparently Joe Biden is, behind closed doors, Einstein crossed with Churchill. He should try doing it in front of the doors, then. 
 During the Biden debate, Trump's strategy is simple: make the doddering old fool talk. If he drifts off -- "...anyway..." -- Trump should say, "Mr. President, go ahead and finish your thought." From the TIME interview to the Hur transcript, Biden is a mess...if you let him talk. 
 Joe Biden is going to have to sign a hush money payment to this dude after this tweet 
 Trump is the threat to democracy?
Are you serious?
Biden has:
- Activated party apparatchiks in NY to convict Trump on spurious charges, thus leading to the possible jailing of his chief political rival;
- Activated his DOJ to target Trump in 3 separate jurisdictions while avoiding criminal culpability for himself and his son;
- Tried to use OSHA to force 80 million Americans to take the vaxx;
- Defied the Supreme Court by illegally waiving student loan debt; 
- Falsely claimed that any election he uses will have been decided by racist Republican voter suppression;
- Attacked the Supreme Court directly;
- Used governmental agencies to threaten social media companies;
- Attacked states for attempting to enforce border law...
The list continues. That's just the short version. 
 This movie sucks 
 This week, Israel found the corpses of hostages in a tunnel in an UNRWA building. The ICJ is trash, just as the UN is trash. Their judgments mean less than nothing. 
 Best case for sanctions ever 
 Man, imagine if he hadn't signed the pacandlpacatlackack into law. What a state we'd be in then! 
 Uhhhhhhh 
 The world is a better place without Ebrahim Raisi, a monstrous human being. The world would be an even better place than that without the ayatollahs in control of Iran. 
 I'm tempted to say "who gives a shit" about the ICC, mainly because no one with half a brain should give a shit about the ICC. But some apparently do, because oh wow the magical morality of ::checks notes:: European bureaucrats. 

So let me explain: this is an institution that doesn't include the US, Russia, India, China, Indonesia, Turkey, among others. It has attempted to investigate American soldiers for doing their jobs in Afghanistan. It's trash. 
 Honestly, we're all just lucky that this cop arrested Scheffler and not Tiger. If they'd arrested Tiger, we'd be treated to two years of talk about systemic police racism. 
 Which "religions in the Middle East" is she referring to? Double dare her to say it out loud and see how her friends on "The View" take it. 
 How, precisely, would one two-handedly chug a bottle of water? 
 Why it's almost as though all of this was pre-scripted by Biden alongside the networks, given how quickly these details were worked out 
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 Hey, @theview, would love to come on to discuss. It’ll be tough, but I’m ready to take on this extraordinary intellectual challenge.

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 I'm sorry u being hungry because ur choosing not to eat in order to defend terrorists is happening to u 
 This isn't the photo op you're looking for. Move along. 
 Our campuses are Left-wing activism training centers. Remove their taxpayer funding. WV miners should not subsidize gender studies major Hamas fans. The solution is NOT to pass a bad bill adding yet more free speech violations to the giant free speech violation that is Title VI. 
 You did it, Joe. You finally brought Americans together. 
 Khymani James is the perfect poster child for our dangerous and empty college generation. A professional victim and aggressive Jew-hater and white-hater, James hides behind intersectional titles to promote actual murder. He seeks to destroy the system that gave him every single privilege. And Columbia humors him. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1783942777132224512/vid/avc1/1280x720/cRG2-VBQycTEw-cE.mp4?tag=14 
 Also, Columbia, Harvard, and many of these other universities are private universities that would never tolerate, say, anti-black demonstrations. Hell, I've been banned from private universities like DePaul. That's wrong, but they have the legal right to do so. Meanwhile, they're fostering pro-terrorist and anti-Semitic protests because muh intersectionality. 
 He's fine. He's totally fine. He's with it and in charge and lively and incisive and knowledgeable and... 
 America doesn’t need to go to war with Iran. All America has to have is the credible threat of military force, or allow Israel to leverage its own such credible threat. But Biden is so afraid of third-world enemies that he’s allowed America to be deterred. https://t.co/pp2nSGQEKV https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1780260028886220800/vid/avc1/1280x720/uTL15d1K5NBd3Nur.mp4?tag=14 
 There are those in the Republican caucus who are fine with operating from the minority, and thus throw wrenches into the works consistently in order to maximize their own exposure. 

Those who are now pushing a "motion to vacate" against Johnson fall into this category. If they're going to oust Johnson they way they ousted McCarthy, they ought to at least be able to name a serious alternative who isn't named Hakeem Jeffries. 

They can't. 
 This is spectacular 
 Joe Biden's economy continues to burn hot. That's what happens if you keep on tossing money onto a raging inflation fire. Which means he'll pivot and talk about abortion endlessly. 
 So much of our politics is about deliberately ignoring the underlying question. For those who want a ceasefire in Gaza, the underlying question is: do you want Hamas to survive as an operational entity? For those who want defunding of Ukraine, the underlying question is: do you want Russia to ingest Ukraine? 
 The Biden administration is now effectively preparing to make aid to Israel contingent on...unspecified changes to Israeli policy. Which means that Israel can do little or nothing to appease the White House. Hamas is now in control of the Biden administration. 
 Enough of the Congressional clown show. Speaker Johnson should immediately nuke the idiotic rule that one person can hold hostage all of Congress by bringing a "motion to vacate" against the Speaker. If that means getting Democratic votes + a majority of Republicans, Johnson should do it anyway. If you don't like that, blame the Republicans who would rather grandstand than do their jobs. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1777384971017093122/vid/avc1/1280x720/CbLKPRssvZE89E7R.mp4?tag=14 
 Sure, Candace. I texted you on February 29th offering this very thing. 

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 Those seeking an internal moral logic to Joe Biden's actions in protecting Hamas will be searching in vain. This is very simple: he thinks his only path to victory runs through pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn and blue-haired gender studies majors in Ann Arbor. 
 Joe Biden's logic when it comes to foreign conflicts not involving the United States: if you are an American ally fighting a semi-traditional war with a uniformed enemy, we'll back you to the hilt (Ukraine). If you are an American ally battling a terrorist group that takes hostages and hides among civilians, you must pre-emptively surrender (Israel). 

In short, the more evil you are, the more the Biden administration flies cover for you and places restrictions on America's allies. 
 Joe Biden is bringing zero pressure on the genocidal terror group currently holding hostages, including Americans. 
 "Empower his negotiators to conclude a deal"? What deal, precisely, does Biden think is on the table? Hamas literally just rejected a six-week ceasefire with a 40-terrorist-to-one-hostage ratio. 
 Joe Biden will cause WWIII through his utter and complete stupidity. 

Here is his current position:

1. The United States is willing to go to direct war with a nuclear power by admitting Ukraine to NATO. The minute Ukraine joins NATO, Article 5 will be invoked and we are then in a shooting war with Russia.

2. The United States is demanding a ceasefire from an ally, Israel, in a war with a terrorist group holding hostages including Americans, in a conflict involving precisely ZERO US troops. Iran and its terror proxies now know that if they murder over a thousand citizens of an American ally, take hundreds of hostages, and then hide among civilians, Joe Biden will save them.

It is nearly impossible to believe one human being could be so stupid. But Joe Biden always surpasses expectations. 
 There is literally no more lenient position to be had. Hamas demands a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza with Hamas still in place. 
 We are constantly told that there is no "deep state." Then Donald Trump threatens to re-establish unitary control of the executive branch, as per the Constitution -- and Joe Biden's response is to protect the deep state. So yeah, there's a deep state. https://t.co/qgvdvKvHaL